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B.O.T.A. Tarot - tarot decks

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About this item
  • Also known as Builders of the Adytum Tarot


Specifications
Name B.O.T.A. Tarot
Alternate Names Builders of the Adytum Tarot
Creators Paul Foster Case
Publisher US Games
Deck Type Tarot Deck
Cards 78
Major Arcana 22
Minor Arcana 56
Deck Tradition Rider-Waite-Smith
Minor Arcana Style RWS-Based Scenes
Suits Cups, Swords, Wands, Pentacles
Court Cards Page, Knight, Queen, King
The Fool is 0
Strength is 11
Justice is 8
Card Size 2.75 x 4.25 in. = 6.99cm x 10.79cm
Card Language English
Card Back Unknown


Reviews
I had to look up "adytum" in a dictionary, which defines the word as the innermost room or shrine in certain old temples, to be entered only by a priest, or a sanctum.

So, there is a mystery tradition associated with this deck. Well, I'm here to talk about the deck I hold in my hand, and not the mysteries the deck may be about. I purchased my deck shrink wrapped, without a box and without a booklet. Just a deck of cards, which cost $7 (US).

Just a bit of background: The story is, every initiate in the seminal Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the late 19th Century esoteric society, had to make a personal copy of the master Golden Dawn Tarot. Members of the order included Pamela Coleman-Smith, William Butler Yeats, Aleister Crowley, Arthur Edward Waite and Paul Foster Case. Three of them went on to publish their own decks and found new traditions: Crowley, Waite and Case. The B.O.T.A. is the deck created by Case.

This is a 78 card deck. In the Major Arcanum, Strength is 8 and Justice is 11. The suits are Wands, Cups, Swords and Pentacles. The court cards are King, Queen, Knight and Page. The majors and court cards are illustrated; the minors revert to the Marseilles tradition and are illustrated only with suit symbols. The art is black line drawings on a white background. The cards, whose corners are squared off and not rounded, are just a little heavier than index cards, or business cards. In fact, the backs of the cards, with a symbol in the center and the B.O.T.A. address printed at the bottom, look like over-sized business cards. The cards are 2 1/2" x 4 1/4" inches (6.5 x 11).

The Smith-Waite deck was first published in 1909, and the B.O.T.A. deck just a few years later. The cards in the Major Arcana are so similar, this might be the first Smith-Waite "clone." There are differences. The Death card, for example, depicts a skeleton walking through a wasteland past severed heads and body parts.

It seems this deck also is available with an instruction booklet written by Case and describing the cards and giving coloring instructions. I haven't seen this booklet. But, mystery tradition aside, if you want an original self-colored deck, why follow someone else's instructions?

And, the fact that you can color this very inexpensive deck yourself, is one of its joys. Whether you use watercolors, watercolor pencils, Crayons, Magic Markers, or almost anything else, the flimsy card stock is sturdy enough to stand up to rigorous coloring. I find, when coloring in the tiny details on the cards, that I really think about the symbolism.

Here's a tip, whatever medium you use to color the cards. After they are colored, at art stores you can buy a fixitive spray. Do not spray this directly on the card -- you might end up with a squiggley mess. Instead, hold the card vertically, and spray parallel to it, so just the fine mist of overspray lands on the cards. And, since fixative in art stores is very expensive, try cheap, generic hair spray. It works!

I strongly recommend this deck for anyone who wants to try coloring their own Tarot deck.

I do not recommend B.O.T.A. for a reading deck. The black and white line drawings are very dry. The deck would not stand up to repeated shufflings.


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